Everton Banter Archive November 12 2014

12 Nov 2014 22:52:45
Jeffers coaching with us with us now welcome home franny

Jeepers, is that a good thing? Jeffers coaching the Kids, not exactly a role model really!

14 Nov 2014 14:08:56
'Jeepers', I haven't heard that expression in years Howie, nice one. You been watching Scooby Doo mate?

Ha take off the fake mask and you might find out who I really am!! Arrrrrgggghhhhh its the JANITOR!!

14 Nov 2014 15:39:05
And you would have got away with it too if it hadn't been for those meddling kids. Ah nostalgia.

At least under DM there was precious little danger of the kids getting a look-in.
;-)

12 Nov 2014 17:41:50
Here is one for you all. Going back to the days when we were all wound up about Moyes leaving and how some people would never forgive him etc. I was thinking about RM V DM as managers and how things had or had not progressed under RM. In Moyes last couple of seasons, we were knocking on the door of Champions League qualification and playing pretty football (not as pretty as RM's I know) but drawing too many games that we should have won. In the end, it was all the draws that cost us. Last season and this has shown a very similar trend. We just don't seem to be able to kill teams off. Any comments?

12 Nov 2014 18:18:10
Nah

Yes we blew our entire transfer budget on one player maybe that doesn't help.

12 Nov 2014 08:23:53
Does anyone else know if we still kept our old scouting network when moyes left, or did roberto bring his own too? The only reason I ask is because other than the proven premiership players (Lukaku and McCarthy) the other players he has brought in are very injury prone and therefore not really that reliable, two names on the tip of my tongue are alcaraz and kone, neither who have held either a regular starting place in the team, one I'm unsure if he has played more than 60 minutes fof efc! That in itself should be worrying if our transfer budget, while already small, is I suppose wasted on injury prone players. I just feel if you are signing a back up player to the 1st team for the purpose of being a squad player they should have an exemplory injury record and be versitle to playing in a number of positions adequately. To pay 6 mill for kone and ship out big vic was I feel a mistake.

Shipping out Anichebe wasn't a mistake imho - it was surely a good move for for both parties.
The only issue with Kone is that he's been injured for so long and therefore hasn't had any chance to prove himself (or not as the case may be!) in the Everton first team. So many of RM's signings have been criticised at first and then the players have proved themselves in the Everton first team - McCarthy and Barry being two prime examples. As far as I'm concerned, only Joel Robles has not impressed to date - although the jury is still out for me on McGeady. The likes of Atsu are hopefully yet to blossom.

12 Nov 2014 15:57:14
In the brief games that he has featured in, Kone looks to be a terrible buy. It's been that long so I could be mistaken, but I remember two sitters that he should have buried when he was fit. That could have been down to lack of confidence, possibly to do with getting familiar with his new team mates etc. Every striker needs the boost a goal does for their morale. But, as others have pointed out, my main concern is that he has never been fit to sustain a place in the team. 6m is a lot to pay for an ageing crock

{Ed025's Note - join our boat crew spud.. :)

None of theses players needed scouting there either players he had on loan or worked with, kone signing has just been unlucky but alcaraz has always had his problems butr was a free

Every football club has signed players that have got a serious injury early in their careers with their new club. Whether they paid £6million or 2 burst footballs and a water bottle for the player, it's not the club or players fault. Kone done well at his 2 previous clubs so there's no reason he wouldn't have done well at us . only for his injuries.

11 Nov 2014 20:45:07
I don't know if this has been asked already but what happens to the champions league place for the winners of the euro cup if the winners have already qualified for champions league by their league placing?

England currently gets 4 places in the UCL - they're for the teams finishing 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th in the PL.
If the UCL winners or UEL winners are English and finish outside these top 4, then we get an extra (5th) place for those winning teams. If both the UCL winner and UEL winners are English, then the 4th PL club drops down to the UEL - we cannot have more than 5 English clubs in the UCL.
If the UCL winner or UEL winner already qualify for the UCL (by finishing in the top 4 in the PL), then we do NOT get an extra space - in other words, the teams finishing outside the PL top 4 do not get an extra UCL place just because some other English clubs win the UCL or UEL.
So, it's possible (but unlikely!) that England could have 5 teams in the UCL - and it's also possible that finishing 4th in the PL doesn't get a UCL place.
Whatever happens, England gets 4 (possibly 5 as explained above) places in the UCL and 3 places in the UEL.
Simples - not!